Several times during Beijing Platform for Action review at the UN ESCAP held in November 2009, people would mention how there are still four countries in the region: Iran, Nauru, Palau and Tonga have yet to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Bangkok, Thailand – (19 November 2009) For such a diverse region, Asia Pacific also has a broad record of its successes and failures in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action for achieving gender equality. Many of the gains are not modest: the creation of national machineres to address women's issues, ratification of treaties against discrimination, campaigns and laws against Violence Against Women, transformation of national legislation to promote women's welfare. And yet, the regional review process revealed still wide gaps between the commitment and the reality, such as in areas of health care, vulnerability of women in situations of armed conflict, and economic participation and political participation.

Bangkok, Thailand – (17 November 2009) Lowly paid, subjected to onerous laws, lacking social protection, working in informal sectors—many women around the world participating in economic activity are already at the lower end of the economic scale. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, many women were even worsely affected. As economies suffered, women suffered more severely.

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFICHigh-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of theBeijing Platform for Action and its Regional and Global Outcomes16-18 November 2009Bangkok, Thailand

Sr. Mary John Mananzan, Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines---The role of religious/faith-based organisations in the regional campaign to end violence against women in the Asia-Pacific region

Bangkok, Thailand – (17 November 2009) Nearly fifteen years have gone past since the Fourth World Conference of Women, when many of the world's countries committed their governments to implement changes that sought long lasting improvements on the lives of women and girls.

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